Senior Software Engineer I - Backend

About the Team

At GOAT Group, the Engineering team is an integral part of our dynamic company. By joining the team, your skills will be front and center, working alongside other passionate individuals to solve problems and build software. From launching compelling new consumer experiences, tackling global logistics challenges to scaling infrastructure to facilitate our rapid growth – technology is essential to driving our vision forward. The work you do will change the way the world shops, while also empowering entrepreneurs, including individual sellers, brands and boutiques.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to help within the Consumer team to design and implement new features across multiple backend applications.

As both a technical leader and a core individual contributor, you will play a key role in enhancing a monolithic Ruby on Rails or GoLang microservices app at the heart of the business and in building out a new, more scalable service-driven architecture.

In this role, you will:

• Manage projects and problems of significantly larger scopes
• Formulate an efficient game plan for delivering a stable, well-tested feature on time
• Make technical recommendations that improve the codebase while minimizing risk
• Identify and fix (or ideally avoid) bugs and performance bottlenecks
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
• Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews, and other team processes

We are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with Ruby on Rails (Python, Go, PHP, or Java are also acceptable)
• Experience with e-commerce/web applications
• Familiarity and comfortability with the technologies, the tradeoffs, and the design patterns emerging in web services
• A quick learner, a self-starter, ability to work autonomously, and be willing (and able) to handle the pressures of an increasing level of responsibility

The hiring range for this position is below, plus benefits (401K, paid time off, dental, medical, vision, disability, life insurance options). To determine starting pay within the hiring range, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, role/level, a candidate’s skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. You may reach out to a recruiter for additional information.Hiring Range:$159,900—$199,900 USD

GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers, apparel and accessories. Operating four distinct brands–GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias–GOAT Group has a global community of over 50M members across 170 countries.

GOAT is the global platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become the leading and most trusted sneaker marketplace in the world, and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company offers styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations, while delivering products to over 50 million members across 170 countries.

Established in New York City over 15 years ago, Flight Club revolutionized sneaker retail as the original consignment store for rare shoes. Carrying the rarest exclusives and collectible sneakers, Flight Club has evolved from a one-stop sneaker destination, to a cultural hub for sneaker enthusiasts and novices alike. With three brick-and-mortar locations in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami, Flight Club remains the premier source for authentic, rare sneakers.

Founded in 2013, Grailed is the leading community-driven marketplace for rare luxury, streetwear and vintage fashion. The marketplace was built for enthusiasts, by enthusiasts, and features products from brands including Supreme, Raf Simons, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Prada and more. With a highly curated selection of resale pieces including inventory exclusive to the platform, Grailed makes fashion accessible.

The company is backed by strategic investor Foot Locker, Inc. as well as some of the leading names in venture capital including Park West Asset Management, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Franklin Templeton, Adage Capital Management, Ulysses Management, D1 Capital Partners, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, Upfront Ventures, Webb Investment Network and Y Combinator.

GOAT Group will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state a